Tom Zembrzuski, aka Your Mate Tom joins us for this episode of Adventures Through The Mind to talk about his journey from a psychedelic champion and youtube celebrity to a man traumatized, live on youtube, by the very substances he once promoted.

We talk about what inspired him to produce psychedelic content on youtube, the process of getting internet famous, and the encounter with a timeless hell that sent him spiralling into post-traumatic stress disorder.

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What Tom's first psychedelic experience offered his life
How and why Tom got into being a psychedelic YouTuber
How YouTube popularity influenced Tom's relationships to psychedelics
The post-ego-dissolution psychedelic ego trip
Tom's traumatic psychedelic trip and how it impacted his relations to life and to psychedelics
Coming to terms with our own darkness
How Tom's psychedelic trauma impacted his youtube content
Why keep drinking ayahuasca after it crushed you?
Tracking the emotional, psychological, emotional themes in order to integrate profound existential suffering
Using cynicisms, video games, and drugs to escape the reality of inner pain
Forgiveness and letting of bitterness and resentment
The impact of telling his youtube followers that he is renouncing psychedelics
The importance of talking about the negative potentials of psychedelics

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